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Spotlight: Symphonic Distribution

Friday, March 5th, 2010

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Back in August of last year, we introduced our new partner, Symphonic Distribution.  Through them we can offer our clients digital distribution and other great services they have in their realm.  Here is a little bit about the prospering company…

Symphonic Distribution is a digital content distributor and services provider aimed at providing the best in content delivery, customer service, marketing, education, distribution, licensing and more for music industry artists, managers, and record labels across the globe. Symphonic Distribution is ran by experienced music producers, label owners, and artists thriving in providing the highest level of service. Their mission is to provide you with the best services to improve brand performance. In addition to their comprehensive service list, they provide individual brands to better help a record label or artist grow. Symphonic is also accredited by the Better Business Bureau to further satisfy their clients and partners.  Below are some new highlights Symphonic has introduced recently that show just how much they have to offer.

SymSTREAM is the brand new iPhone / iPod Touch application created by Symphonic Distribution.  Being one of the only distributors in the world to have an iPhone / iPod Touch application, Symphonic Distribution has further diversified itself with new and evolving technologies aimed.  The tool also will serve as a new marketing initiative for artists and record labels distributed by Symphonic Distribution.  SymSTREAM allows you to preview some of the great music we receive each and every week!  If you are at the gym or simply want to listen to new, creative, and innovative music, download SymSTREAM for FREE at the APP Store today. More details in their BLOG

Rolling out in the first part of 2010, Symphonic is updating their client area with a new royalties portal. A second phase of the portal is coming soon that will add detailed stats and sales figures. This will give you a lot of insight on what is selling and what you need to market more in that quarter. This new content portal will bring a new level of self service and convenience to getting your tracks out to digital stores. You will be able to deliver releases to them and have full control as if YOU are the distributor!  This will also allow you more control at any time of your releases, eliminate errors, expedite release delivery, and just simplify the process in general. These updates will really make Symphonic your go-to site for digital distribution.

Being all about customer service, it should be obvious that they care about their clients. They strive to make every step you need to take as simple as possible, include free marketing plans and education with many different resources to make you shine! For example, they can distribute releases to promo pools worldwide, have many internal labels available to release your unsigned material and even have an Artist Connect- where they send unaffiliated artist’s demos to 600+ labels across the globe for potential licensing.

It’s a worthwhile trip to their website, so don’t hesitate to see what you can get into. Sign up for their newsletter to be in the know of their success and see how you can connect with other artists, labels or engineers. Check out their blog to see the Release, Label and Artist of the week.

http://symphonicdistribution.com/
http://symintranet.com/blog/
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SYMPHONICDISTRIBUTION
WWW.TWITTER.COM/SYMPHONICDIST
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SYMPHONICDISTRIBUTION

Extended Service Package

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

The Extended Service Package (E.S.P.) offers our clients who order replicated discs the option to take that release to the digital retail world. E.S.P. allows you to combine our high quality disc manufacturing with Symphonic Distributions world-class digital distribution. Also included is a UPC barcode and ISRC codes for your release. We will also submit your release to popular databases like Gracenote and All Music so that your CD’s information will show up in player like iTunes when put into a computer. Finally we will also submit your release information to Soundscan so that your sales data is recorded.

Details

Digital Distribution: 100% royalty distribution of up to 15 songs through our partner Symphonic distribution. Your release will be in digital download stores such as iTunes, Amazon Mp3, E Music and more. No setup fees, no hosting fees, you keep 100% of your royalties.

Encoding and Prep: We will prepare your audio for submission and work with you to complete all the important Metadata involved.

UPC: We will issue you a UPC barcode to include on your packaging and will be used for digital release.

ISRC Codes: If your label does not provide you with ISRC Codes we will create them for you prior to production so they are included on your CD and downloads.

Gracenote: Your disc will be entered into the Gracenote (formally the CDDB) database for enhanced album information when your disc is put into a computer or played on a Gracenote enhanced media player. All of your song titles, artist name, album name, etc will populate so you do not have to worry about iTunes showing your songs as Track 1, Track 2, Track 3.

All Music: Once your CD is manufactured, we will send a copy with the required information to the All Music database (www.allmusic.com). This is a great way to give you and your release more coverage on the Internet. Many people use All Music as a source to get information on an artist and their releases. You can also send us a copy of your press kit for All Music to review and use to create your page. (This service requires the use of one of your CD’s to submit to All Music, it will not be returned.)

Soundscan: A very important part of physical CD sales is reporting to Nielsen Soundscan. This service will record and track your sales. Many major labels, marketing groups, and music charting companies use this information on a daily basis. You can contact Nielsen to purchase a report of your disc sales to use as part of your marketing.

Placing a replication order is as easy as contacting a rep at info@eternitemedia.com. Be sure to tell them you would like to add the Extended services package to your order.